Category: Facsimile

Mattioli's Herbal (1562): a short account of its illustrations

Price: $145.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Pierpont Morgan Library : 2003

Seller ID: 507

Binding: half bound in buckram with patterned paper-co

This commentary was printed to mark the opening of the Morgan's 2003 exhibition Picturing Natural History: Flora and Fauna in Drawings, Manuscripts, and Printed Books. Each of the three hundred copies contains a black and white print from the original woodblock of asarum from Mattioli's Herbal of 1562. only leafed through once - like new. No. 154 of a limited edition of 300 (350) copies printed on Zerkall paper The type was set at the Whittington Press, and the book was published by the Each copy contains a print pulled from the original woodblock, Asarum, from "Mattioli's Herbal" of 1562. Shi...
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Restoring a Lost Nose

By: Carpue, J. C.

Price: $38.50 USD

Seller ID: 4L3-G7D-63S

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Hardcover Fine Priced to sell! Large format leatherbound hardcover Appears unread Ships from Hawaii.
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Facsimile: Masses of Saint Francis of Assisi and Saint Anne (Messen des Heiligen Franz von Assisi und der Heiligen Anna)

By: Francis of Assisi

Price: $475.00 USD

Publisher: Zurich, Belser Verlag : 1987

Seller ID: 721ho

Binding: Leatherbound in silver slipcase

Condition: like new

Miniature Book: Messen des Heiligen Franz von Assisi und der Heiligen Anna. Zurich, Belser Verlag, 1987 (sells new for Euro 1,290), 2 vols., facs. vol.: no pagination, (27) facsimile. color. plates, orig. gilt morocco.,with gilt ornaments on front- & backcover in orig. silver slipcase w. chain, Engraved letter ' A' on front- & cut-out letter ' F ' on back. 1 1/4" x 1.1/2" (2,4x3,4 cm) commentary volume in German.: 63p., orig. cl., sm. 8vo., printed in a limited edition of 980 numbered copies, together in original transparent plastic box (fine). Free shipping from Hawaii (within US). The Masses...
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A Spanish Apocalypse: The Morgan Beatus Manuscript

By: WILLIAMS, John (introduction and commentaries)

Price: $185.00 USD

Publisher: New York, George Braziller and The Pierpont Morgan Library : 1991

Seller ID: 729B

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Like New

New York: Braziller in association with The Pierpont Morgan Library,, 1991. 239 pages 14" x 11.5" x 1.5". Book and dust jacket LIKE NEW, appears unread. Ships from Hawaii. = Codicological Analysis by Barbara A. Shailor. Numerous full page color illustrations. Small folio, gilt decorated red cloth, dj. =. in the tenth century A.D., a Spanish monk was commissioned to copy a theological text. The surviving result was the Morgan Beatus, an illuminated manuscript. A thoroughly interesting chapter in this book introduces the history of the manuscript, tracing its physical and stylistic origins. The ...
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Category: Facsimile

Mattioli's Herbal (1562): a short account of its illustrations

Restoring a Lost Nose

Facsimile: Masses of Saint Francis of Assisi and Saint Anne (Messen des Heiligen Franz von Assisi und der Heiligen Anna)

A Spanish Apocalypse: The Morgan Beatus Manuscript